Angola or Algeria
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| Angola | Algeria | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | — |
| Citizenship | — | 7 years |
| Partner can work | — | — |
| Parents | — | — |
| Pets | — | no trouble |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | — | no |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 593 · estimate | $ 209 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 20,8 | $ 21,4 |
| Life expectancy | 64.81 | 76.47 |
| Homicides/100k | 4.1 | 1.38 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 3 | 3.4 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Angola — 21, Algeria — 28. Types present in both: work, study and family. Angola adds: investment.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Angola: fees range from 30,500 to 76,250 AOA. Routes with a published decision deadline: 20; the shortest is 15 days. Algeria: fees range from 1,000 to 70,000 DZD. Routes with a published decision deadline: 3; the shortest is 2 days.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Angola after 10 years, Algeria after 7 years. Citizenship: Algeria after 7 years; the other country publishes no term.
Angola in brief
Angola is a country with an expensive capital and weak institutions: rule of law −1.17, control of corruption −0.62 and political stability −0.57 on the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, and a Gini index of 51.3 — among the highest in the world. Life expectancy is 64.81 years, basic water access reaches 68 per cent of the population, and unemployment stands at 14.1 per cent. What is markedly better than regional neighbours: 4.1 homicides per 100,000 (2016 data) and the air — PM2.5 at 19.91 micrograms per cubic metre. Natural risks are moderate (3.0 out of 10 on INFORM). The immigration framework was rewritten by law No. 13/19 and rests on a principle found almost nowhere else: a visa is not a step towards residence but a permission for a specific occupation. The tourist, study, medical, short-duration, border and — most importantly — work visas expressly forbid establishing residence. Only the residence-establishment visa and the temporary-stay visa for the family of a resident or the spouse of a citizen lead to a residence permit. The work visa additionally ties the holder to a single employer. Permanent residence is granted after ten years of temporary residence and has no expiry. The law's deadlines are firm in both directions: 30 days to decide a residence application, 15 working days for inter-agency opinions, and silence counts as consent.
Algeria in brief
Algeria combines high seismicity and very high youth unemployment with cheap transport and fuel. On the World Bank scale from −2.5 to +2.5, political stability stands at −0.69, rule of law at −0.70, control of corruption at −0.59 and government effectiveness at −0.25 — governance scores noticeably better than most of the region. Life expectancy is 76.47 years, health spending 233.38 dollars per person per year, basic access to water reaches 92.42 per cent of the population, and mean PM2.5 concentration is 16.54 micrograms per cubic metre. Homicides at 1.38 per 100,000 are among the lowest figures in this set; road deaths run at 18.3. Unemployment is 11.63 per cent and among young people 29.44 — that is the defining feature of the labour market. Overall natural risk is 3.4 out of 10 on INFORM, and it is almost entirely seismic: earthquakes 7.9, floods 3.6, droughts 3.4, against coastal risks at 0.7, tsunami at 1.4 and no cyclones at all. Transport and fuel are cheap even by regional standards: a monthly pass costs 8.15 dollars and a litre of fuel 0.32. The immigration framework is published in full by Law No. 08-11 of 25 June 2008 in the official gazette, and it rests on a separation of three rights. Entry is granted by the consular visa: it is valid for up to two years, but the stay permitted on each entry is no more than 90 days. Residence is permitted by the resident card issued by the wilaya of residence, ordinarily for two years; after seven years of continuous lawful residence a ten-year card may be issued, and the same card goes to the resident's children over 18 living with them. Work is permitted by a separate document: a resident card is not issued to a salaried worker at all without a work permit, a temporary work authorisation or a declaration of employment, and the card cannot outlast that document. A thread running through the law is the principle of reciprocity: it is stipulated for consular fees, for appealing a refusal and for the age threshold alike. What this data does not contain, and why: the law expressly delegates to secondary legislation the procedure for issuing visas, the procedure for issuing the resident card and the conditions for family reunification — so no processing targets and no family timeline are to be found in it. City populations are not given: no official source separating city from wilaya could be found.
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